Lycopene is a bioactive red pigment found in plants, especially in red fruits and vegetables,
including tomato, pink guava, papaya, pink grapefruit, and watermelon. Several research …

The diagnostic use of procalcitonin for bacterial infections remains a matter of debate. Most
studies have used ambiguous outcome measures such as sepsis instead of infection. We …

Introduction There is scarce evidence on the use of eosinophil count as a marker of outcome
in patients with infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether changes in …

Abstract The Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer risk index score
developed, through a multinational collaboration, was published in 2000 with the aim to …

Background Serum procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are biomarkers of
infection. In patients with hematologic disorders with or without hematopoietic stem cell …

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) has been proposed as a marker of infection and was
studied in neutropenic patients. This study investigated its role in non‐neutropenic febrile …

Objectives: Infections in critically ill patients continue to impose diagnostic and therapeutic
challenges. We seek to investigate the utility of proadrenomedullin and procalcitonin as …

Diagnosis of infections in cancer patients is usually problematic since differentiating
between infection and fever of unknown origin is often a considerable clinical challenge. In …

Febrile neutropenia (FN) is often observed in hematological malignancies (HEM). Presepsin
is also known as soluble CD14 subtype; it is a glycoprotein fragment derived from …

Objective In this study, we investigated the roles of presepsin (PSP) and midregional
proadrenomedullin (mr-proADM) in children with febrile neutropenia (FN) due to …